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I expected you to have submitted around 100 links without any of them getting traction, but you have submitted three, and complaining that none of them hit the
by capableweb 5y ago
I expected you to have submitted around 100 links without any of them getting traction, but you have submitted three, and complaining that none of them hit the frontpage? HN might be a small place compared to many other social media, but it's not that small, countless of links are submitted every day, and yes, it's not simple to get a story to the frontpage but it's not that hard if it's interesting either. It also depends on what sources you're submitting from, that could have something to do with it, as the submission you've done are not from "popular" domains, so people won't even give them a chance (specifically, I think techcrunch is penalized automatically as they usually have very poor articles).
According to my profile page, I've made almost 200 submissions since Sept 2019, with many of them ending up on the frontpage. Even if the "success" (I wouldn't call hitting the frontpage success even) rate is low, even ending up on the second or third page sometimes yield interesting discussions, which is my main goal with doing submissions to HN in the first place.
> One interesting enhancement that would help with that and that also addresses the problem of duplicates is to simply count duplicate link submissions as an upvote on the original. Most popular links have numerous duplicates before and after that did not make it. Some links actually make it to the front page multiple times.
This already happens. I'm not sure what the threshold in time is, but sometimes I make a submissions and it takes me automatically to a story that is a few days old and adds a upvote to it.
- bryanrasmussen 5y agoLooking at my current submissions page, last 30 submissions, 8 of them got uptake (which I will say more than 3 upvotes), 5 of them got 15 or more, none of them in the 100s. Out of the 30 I would also think 5 of them which got 1 or 2 votes each were lower quality submissions - of less interest although still suitable - for example this one "Science Fiction Is Never Evenly Distributed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30085327 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30085327 or "Literature-clock: Clock using time quotes from literature" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30044179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30044179 many of those that didn't get any uptake I thought were pretty great - like this one "Marie Boulanger on the nostalgic power of typography in The French Dispatch" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30130297 There was one that got 52 points that I wondered - should I post this - "Getting to Know the Armed, the Most Unknowable Band in Hardcore" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30082588 In short - HN Submissions sure are a land of contrasts. on edit: In fact as a general rule it seems the ones of mine that get any significant uptake are because they were added to the second chance pool, not sure if maybe being in Denmark I post during disadvantaged times of the day or something, but that is my general feeling.